Climate change: Vietnam records highest-ever temperature of 44.1C

[Eugene]

Source: BBC

Climate change: Vietnam records highest-ever temperature of 44.1C

7 May 2023

Vietnam has recorded its highest ever temperature, just over 44C (111F) - with experts predicting it would soon be surpassed because of climate change.

The record was set in the northern province of Thanh Hoa, where officials warned people to stay indoors during the hottest times of the day.

Other countries in the region have also been experiencing extremely hot weather.

Thailand reported a record-equalling 44.6C in its western Mak province.

Meanwhile Myanmar's media reported that a town in the east had recorded 43.8C, the highest temperature for a decade.

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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-65518528

[jeffreyi]

1. So when does this get into wet bulb territory?

We certainly live in interesting times. I get sucked into this little thing or that little thing in the daily "feed", "oh dear, another problem to solve", then, try to remember to step back and try to comprehend the really big picture. If there was ever a time to stick together, acknowledge and respect each other, and all life, as ourselves, it's now. If there was ever a time when that is least likely on a meaningful scale, it's now. Unfortunately we are behaving in perfect step with every organism population that has exceeded its bounds. We were made that way. The difference is that we can actually see it happening in real time, and theoretically have the capacity to do take remedial action and voluntarily limit ourselves, to defy our fundamental proclivities to use it all up before somebody else gets it. Unlike the multiplying bacteria in a petri dish. Assuming the bacteria in the petri dish have no conscious awareness. That very well might be an erroneous assumption. Well, on the scale of geologic time, this is just a blip. Maybe the 1000th, or millionth iteration of whatever life form we are will do better. Peace out.